Virtualization Implementation in the Enterprise

Smart and efficient investments are the backbone of any successful enterprise. Thus the implementation of enterprise virtualization has become familiar among the top companies in many sectors. Some examples:

Examples:

• Specsavers – One of the world’s leading healthcare firms which have experienced great cost efficiency and achieved remarkable productivity using virtualization technology. The company has implemented enterprise-level virtualization in their development, testing, and deployment activities. They are using open source enterprise virtualization from Redhat.
• Casio – Japan’s most renowned mobile phones and electronic gadgets manufacturer have also implemented enterprise-level virtualization to boost their productivity and efficiency. The firm has utilized Redhat Enterprise Virtualization in all their IT departments and accelerated their performance.

Virtualization

This era has paved the way for the most flexible and powerful computing technology – virtualization. Virtualization is also known as cloud computing. Is appreciated for its efficient resource usage and management capabilities.

It has rapidly reduced the cost of resources in IT applications by creating virtual instances of operating systems, servers, storage devices, network resources, and similar devices.

Virtualization can be implemented for both personal and enterprise level purposes. Like Redhat’s offerings, there is also other open source cloud software available. This includes Virtual Box from Oracle that can be used for both home level and enterprise level virtualization.

Areas of Virtualization Implementation

This includes the application level, server level, operating system level, and the storage level.

• Application Virtualization -   This type of virtualization allows the applications to be installed in the cloud machine.  Virtual instances of this applications get created. These virtual instances act similar to the original application and can be run simultaneously by more than one users. For example, applications like databases and Customer Relation Management (CRM) can be virtualized to provide a synchronized working environment. This helps to reduce the high cost of buying licenses for many applications.
• Operating System Virtualization – Operating Systems can be virtualized to allow utilization by many users instead of one. This can avoid purchasing exclusive operating system software for each and every systems. And it also helps to use the hardware resources efficiently. Operating system virtualization is more familiar and successful technology in the IT industry.
• Server Virtualization – Huge investments required to install many server machines in an enterprise makes a great impact on the profit of a company.
• Hardware Virtualization – There is no other technology that can offer better efficiency than hardware virtualization. Hardware products such as processors, memory devices, and network devices can be virtualized to cut down the cost of buying many hardware products.

• Storage Virtualization – Cloud storage implementation in an enterprise will help to manage the databases and resources of multinational companies effectively. Cloud storage allows the enterprise to unite all the data and information in one storage place.Also,

• Integration of resources and authorization capabilities is achieved by cloud computing.
• Virtualization technology makes finding and rectifying the bugs, errors, and performance problems in software simpler.
• Since all resources are available in one place, it makes it easier to manage the applications effectively.
• Application level virtualization allows cost-efficient upgrading of software applications.
• Virtualization is known for its excellent performance with the efficient use of hardware and resources.

Highlights of Virtualization

We are swinging back to the past with virtualization, as the process feels similar to thin clients. The key difference is that the infrastructure is now much more powerful, and virtualization is much more stable for it, offering an incredibly powerful toolset.

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